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An interdisciplinary working party1 has been trying to see whether the diffuse debate about the social responsibility of scientists can be brought into sharper focus and whether some practical means could be devised—within the framework of the existing social system—for scientists to discharge the special social obligations which many of them feel they have.
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SIEGHART, P. A Corporate Conscience for the Scientific Community?. Nature 239, 15–18 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239015a0
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